His house has hosted a number of artists over the years, receiving the now popular nickname of "Hotel Yorba". These included Robert Guthrie and Doug Winger. Often, these artists collaborated with him on his various projects. At the present time, Martin continues selling his original artwork and prints at the many furry conventions hosted around the United States, especially Further Confusion and Anthrocon.

Steve's work interview at Warner Bros. TV Animation in 1991 turned into a now-classic fiasco when he showed TazMania director Douglas McCarthy adult furry artwork during the course of an animation portfolio review, assuming that the director wouldn't have a problem with it. A lot of furry fandom detractors have used this incident to bolster the theory of furry blacklisting within the animation industry. An alternate version of this story has Martin trying to pitch a complete storyboard for an adult episode of Tiny Toons at the same interview, but Steve claims that this is not true.[1]

Steve was stopped, and temporarily incarcerated, at the Canadian border in July of 2002 on his way to see fellow furry artistTaral Wayne, while traveling to Anthrocon 2002. He was charged with trying to smuggle "sellable goods" into Canadian territory, but was released within days after the confiscation of most of his merchandise. Again, alternate inaccurate variants of this incident exist, claiming that he was detained for trying to smuggle adult furry art and/or just pornographic material in general. In fact the material was merely passing through the country via Toronto, en route to Anthrocon. The final bulk of the confiscated merchandise was finally returned by Canada Customs on 16 October 2006.[1]